When Ralph Reuban Rankin was born on 21 March 1917, in Westville, Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada, his father, Thomas Rankin, was 23 and his mother, Mary Grace Harquail, was 22. He married Mary Valerie Belliveau on 23 May 1938, in Campbellton, Restigouche, New Brunswick, Canada. He died on 21 March 1999, in Dalhousie, Restigouche, New Brunswick, Canada, at the age of 82, and was buried in Dalhousie, Restigouche, New Brunswick, Canada.
Scottish and English: from Middle English Ran(d)kin, a diminutive of Ran(d), a pet form of the personal name Ran(d)ulf. See Rand , Randolph , Randall . This name was brought to Northern Ireland (Derry) from Scotland in the 17th century.
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